Photo: Guillaume Hébert-Jodoin · CC BY 3.0Very good or excellent health for 55% of adults in Rougemont’s health region
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.5, with women at 84.2 and men at 80.8. For Rougemont itself the measure is access, and it lags: 20 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Rougemont is A−, #395 of 503 in Quebec and #1,151 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Rougemont
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Rougemont the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 21 km. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 21% of adults, diabetes for 9.9%. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Rougemont, a child can expect 1.0 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.5 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Rougemont grades A− for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
The region’s four figures and the town’s distance to a hospital are each ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, then averaged. Its place: #395 of 503 in Quebec and #1,151 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
How the grade works
Health is graded as a regional score, labelled as such: very good or excellent self-rated health, chronic conditions (arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure averaged) and smoking from the Canadian Community Health Survey, each age-standardised so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, and life expectancy at birth, all for the health region. The residents’ average distance to a hospital is the one input measured for the town itself, so towns in one region can still differ.
The nearest hospital is 20 km from the average home in Rougemont
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Rougemont’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Rougemont travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Quebec is 5.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
At 32%, self-reported obesity is near Quebec’s 29%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight. The anxiety disorder figure is the 2021/2022 estimate: Statistics Canada found the latest too unreliable to publish here.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Quebec, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Quebec runs from 65.2 to 84.1; this region sits 6th of the 18.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Rougemont’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Rougemont’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.7, the expected figure is 82.1 years, and Rougemont’s region matches it closely with 82.5. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 7 of 10; their median is 81.4 years.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, 2022/2024, by health region. Deprivation: Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021 (situational vulnerability), averaged over each region’s towns by their residents; income: 2021 Census median household income, averaged the same way. The averages and the line are TownRatings calculations.
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Quebec (56%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 64% very good or excellent against 64% for Quebec; stress is a daily matter for 23%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Rougemont is 30th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,796 to 2,872 people, median 7.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 2 | Minnedosa MB B− | 2,859 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Grimshaw AB C− | 2,799 | 1.3 km | 48% |
| 28 | Bedford QC A− | 2,845 | 20 km | 57% |
| 29 | Perry ON D | 2,866 | 20 km | 47% |
| 30 | Rougemont QC A− | 2,832 | 20 km | 55% |
| 31 | Labelle QC A | 2,861 | 21 km | 60% |
| 32 | Saint-Anicet QC B+ | 2,854 | 23 km | 55% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Rougemont
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rougemont | 20 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Césaire 4.7 km | 21 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
| Sainte-Angèle-de-Monnoir 5.7 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Damase 9.1 km | 12 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Marieville 9.2 km | 14 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Jean-Baptiste 9.9 km | 19 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford 13 km | 12 km | 57% | 82.9 | A |
Saint-Paul-d'Abbotsford falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 82.9 against 82.5 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Rougemont alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in Rougemont
How far is Rougemont from a hospital?
For everyday care, Rougemont’s residents are 5.7 km from a pharmacy and 5.3 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Rougemont?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Rougemont?
There is no figure for Rougemont alone; its health region’s is 84.2 for women and 80.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Rougemont’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Rougemont’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).